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15 What a bad day it will be! The day of the Lord is near, when the All-powerful God will come to destroy. 16 Do you see how our food has been taken from us? Has not happiness and joy been cut off from the house of our God? 17 The seeds dry up under the ground. The store-houses are laid waste. The buildings where the grain was kept are torn down, for the grain is destroyed.

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15 Alas for that(A) day!
    For the day of the Lord(B) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a](C)

16 Has not the food been cut off(D)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness(E)
    from the house of our God?(F)
17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.[b](G)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai
  2. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.